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Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Smith, Douglas Eliot
. Geomagnetic sensitivity and orientation in eastern garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis)Snow, Julie Amy
. Convective transport of hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl precursors to the upper troposphereSong, Zhiyi
. Information content of open-market stock repurchase and dividend policySpencer, Michael Andrew
. Three experiments on providing and valuing threshold public goods with alternative rebate rulesVemavarapu, Chandra S.
. PARTICLE FORMATION BY RAPID EXPANSION OF SUPERCRITICAL SOLUTIONSViator, Oran Joseph Jr.
. A comprehensive mass balance of a watershed under steady state conditionsWang, Yuexia
. Genetic transformation of bentgrasses for fungal disease resistanceWard, Rose Marie
. Highly significant findings in psychology: A power and effect size surveyWright, Julie A.
. An analysis of the predictive power of the transtheoretical model of behavior change applied to dietary fat intakeZhang, He
. Functional characterization of the pregnane X receptorTheses/Dissertations from 2001
Allard, Gregory Andrew
. Assessing depression treatment and outcomes using insurance claims dataArciero, Michael Joseph
. Some Limit Theorems for Szego PolynomialsBabacan, Sibel
. Honey amylase and the effect in starch-containing foodsBeauregard, Jennifer Livesley
. Explosive rhyodacitic volcanism: The evolution and frequency of pre-1883 eruptions at Krakatau volcano, IndonesiaBittner, Nancy Phoenix
. An exploration of critical thinking and processing in cardiac nurses' practiceBonsu, Samuel Kwaku
. Death and identity: Consumer behavior in Asante death ritualsBontempi, Paula Susan
. Remote sensing of bio-optical water types, phytoplankton seasonality, and algal pigments in ocean margin watersBowler, Celeste Minor
. The influence of teacher response on African American students' codeswitchingBrodjonegoro, Irsan Soemantri
. Acoustic imaging of sources located either external, internal or on the surface of an arbitrary bodyCady-Webster, Kathleen S.
. Dialogue in the development of a consilience index: A quantum approach to integrating qualitative and quantitative practices in the social sciencesCao, He
. Theoretical and experimental study of fiber-optic fluorescence immunosensorsCardinale, Mary K.
. Piety and intolerance: A rhetorical inquiry into the constituting of Christian fundamentalist identityCasey Torrey, Susan Patricia
. An analysis of Rhode Island child opportunity zones through the lens of whole-school changeCho, Jung-Hee
. Optimal exploitation of Atlantic herring stocks in United States of America: Bioeconomic model for Atlantic herringCleary, Thomas Terrence
. Providing phonemic awareness instruction to pre-first graders: An extended-year kindergarten programCorreia, Stephen
. The Potential Clinical Utility of Methods for Estimating Prior Standing in Specific Cognitive Domains: A Feasibility and Illustration StudyDesai, Yogita
. A MECHANISTIC STUDY OF FLOW AND COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL POWDERSEriksen, Matthew
. The electronic fishbowl as a community of inquiry: Management passion in the XXIst centuryGreen, Angel Yvonne
. Street TheaterHallak, Maram
. Nonviolence training program evaluationHanafi, Mamduh M.
. Essay on foreign and domestic investorsHardro, Peter Jason
. Development of materials for the rapid manufacture of die cast toolingHartmann, Paul Christian
. Contaminants in Narragansett Bay sedimentsHenry, Timothy Michael
. Using JPEG2000 compressed images for foveated texture mapping in limited memory environmentsHuffman, Scott Wade
. Biological vibrational spectroscopy: From a cellular to a sub-cellular levelJeng, Shih-Ching
. Efficiency Issues in the Financial Services Industry WorldwideJohnson, Janet L.
. Integrating the Transtheoretical Model: A Quantitative Analysis in the Area of Sun ExposureJones-Hudson, Vonda Dionne
. Movin' on up to the 21st century: Multiculturalism… making the abstract appliedJordan, Patricia Janet
. Development, validation and factorial invariance of transtheoretical model measures for recovery from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaKajiji, Nina
. Adaptation of closed form regularization parameters with prior information to the radial basis function neural network for high frequency financial time seriesKim, Gi-Ho
. Impedance analysis of an enhanced piezoelectric biosensorKingston, Sharon
. The relationship between a sense of community and social disorganization and neighborhood deprivationKlein, Ilene
. The relationship of community and prevention coalition characteristics to rates of adolescent substance abuseKogut, Stephen Jon
. HYPOGLYCEMIC DRUG UTILIZATION AND ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED REGIMENS: A PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY USING RETAIL PHARMACY DATALallemand, Philippe D.
. A synthetic approach to forecasting fleet costs and earnings in the northeast regions of the United StatesLamoureux, Anne Maile
. School psychologists' knowledge of family violence and their identification of children from violent homesLian, Peizhi
. Physicochemical and microstructural changes in minced fish muscles as affected by cryoprotectantsLi, Edwin
. Cadmium toxicity and random motility studies using marine dinoflagellatesLiu, Delong
. Enhancing micro-organism images by estimating image backgroundLuo, Qing
. Indium tin oxide thin film strain gages for use at elevated temperaturesMaria, Anton Hanna
. Characterization and fractal analysis of volcanic particles: A multidimensional approach to interpretation of volcaniclastic depositsMcCarthy, Patrick Allen
. Synthesis of conducting polymer complexesMele, Kate
. Legal subjects: The tropological construction of "woman" in legal narrativesMeyer, Miriam I.
. Effects of Reading Disability in Adolescents on Self-Concept and Future ExpectationsMills, Dana Scott
. Examining the structural and philosophical positions of community-based organization practitionersMorrow, Jennifer Ann
. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND ADULT HEALTH: PROTECTIVE FACTORS AS MEDIATING VARIABLESMuench, John David
. Periodic acoustic radiation from a low aspect ratio propellerNoar, Seth Michael
. Sexual negotiation and the influence of gender and power in heterosexually active men and womenPan, Feng
. Heat shock proteins and osmotic shock in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)Paolucci, Judith Jean
. Gender roles and science beliefs and their relationship to science interestPashtenko, Valentin H.
. Embedded impediments to joint venture success: A new institutional theory perspective on negotiating with Russian principalsPeck, Myron Arms
. Aspects of the physiology of early juvenile cod (Gadus morhua L.) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus L.)Pineo, Lindsey Knight
. The relationship between teacher perceptions of self, others, and instructional methods and intentions to teach HIV/AIDS preventionPurinton, Elizabeth F.
. The effects of the intensity of conflict and commitment on marketing channel partnership survivalRadin, Michael Alexander
. The global stability, boundedness, and periodicity character of certain difference equationsRicci, Vittorio
. Characterization of interfacial fracture using strain fieldsSaadi, Mary Ann
. Some results on tree tolerance representationsSaha, Supratim
. Optimal estimation of nonlinear and linear parameters in general linear modelsSchwartz, Malia Lois
. Anoxia tolerance and recovery in freshwater and marine turtlesSparks, Rebecca L.
. Rational functions whose zeros and poles are constrained by conditions arising in controlSrithongchai, Sriruk
. Computer-aided design and manufacture of minimum-weight structuresStram, Diana Lynn
. Numerical modeling of estuarine transport, water quality, and the impact of shrimp mariculture in the Rio Chone estuary, EcuadorSubbayya, Sankaranarayanan
. Effect of grid non-orthogonality on the solution of shallow water equations using boundary-fitted gridsSun, Che
. A study of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in streamfunction spaceSwann, Kathleen A.
. The relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations to reading and their verbal feedback to students during oral readingTagi, Seref
. β-Glucuronidase assay for the detection of Escherichia coli in foodsTreubig, James Michael Jr.
. Novel approaches to the analysis and use of fullerenes using capillary electrophoresis and high-performance liquid chromatographyVan Dyke, Richard Kenneth
. Traces of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century travel writing and the reproduction of knowledge(s)Vincent, Harold Thomas II
. Models, algorithms, and measurements for underwater acoustic positioningWood, Kay Helene
. The effectiveness of transitional bilingual education on the reading performance of Cape Verdean students from Crioulo-speaking homesWoo, Eunjoo
. Cultural conditioning and mother/daughter conflicts in the development of identity and voice: The autobiographical fiction of Dorothy Allison, Wan-So Pak, and Maxine Hong KingstonWu, Su-Hsiu
. Analysis of a proposed model for detection of magnetic fields by biological systemsXia, Yashen
. Experimental studies of microstructural evolution in mixed cationic/anionic surfactant systemsYue, Guosen
. Study of particle deposition in human airway modelsZhang, Jun
. Algorithms for series coefficientsZhu, Xiaobo
. Computer simulation of inspiratory flow and particle deposition in human oral airwayZwick, Detlev
. The speed of money: Investment as consumption in age of computer-mediated communicationTheses/Dissertations from 2000
Ackley, Margaret Anne
. Development and Initial Validation of a Structured Interview for the Detection of Malingered Mild Head InjuryAkay, Olcay
. Unitary and Hermitian fractional operators and their extensions: Fractional Mellin transform, joint fractional representations and fractional correlationsAvery, David Edward
. Induction of embryonic diapause in the calanoid copepod Acartia hudsonicaBennett, Heather
. Studies on the pedal gland and pedal epithelium of the protobranchiate bivalviaBickford, Donna M.
. Acts of dissent: Literatures of coming to consciousness in the United States and Latin AmericaBisack, Kathryn D.
. Bioeconomics of seasonality, seasonal stock depletion and marine mammal protectionBochain, Shelley Stone
. Induced labor intervention for self-efficacy: A nursing intervention for women prone to an unpredictable labor patternBoyko, Christopher B.
. Phylogenetic systematics of the Albuneidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Hippoidea), with the description of a new familyBoynton, Wentworth
. Three papers that evaluate stock portfolio rebalancing and delisting influences on empirical asset pricing testsBriden, William James
. On some nonautonomous difference equations of the Max typeBu, Dongsheng
. Interactive self-modeling mixture analysis using principal component approachBurkholder, Gary J.
. Integrating theories and methods in assessing longitudinal change in heterosexual HIV risk among womenCatone, William Vincent
. Teacher opinions about the nature and treatment of reading deficits in adolescents